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31 Cards in this Set
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What did Hamilton tax? What did his takes lead to? |
Tax on whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania |
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Who did Hamilton's tax influence? Why were they upset with the tax? |
Farmers who made whiskey with their surplus corn
Farmers rarely had cash since they bartered |
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Farmers were peaceful about their resistance to the tax until when? Why? What happened? |
Until July 1794 Federal officers steeped efforts to collect the tax
Farmers gathered into angry mobs, attacking tax collectors and burning buildings |
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What was this armed protest know as? How did Washington respond to the whiskey rebellion? |
The whiskey rebellion
Sends army and the rebellion collapsed as soon as the army crosses Appalachian mountains |
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If citizens opposed the government and wanted to change the law what were they to do? What would the government do if they didn't? |
To carry out there opposition through peaceful, constitutional means
Government would use force gene necessary to maintain social order |
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What did the Native Americans who lived between the Appalachian mountains deny? Who did they turn to to they them in their cause? |
Denied U.S. Had Authority over them
Britain and Spain |
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Washington worried about European ambitions in the Northwest Territory. What did he do to lessen the influence of the British and Spanish? |
Signed treaties with Native American tribes in the area |
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Why did fighting break out beaten native Americans in the northwest territory and Americans? |
American settlers ignored the treaties Washington made by continuing to move onto lands promised to the native Americans |
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Who did Washington send an army under to restore order in the Northwest Territory? Who was he beaten by? when and where ? |
General Arthur St Clair
Badly beaten by Little turtle of the Miami people in November 1791 by the Wabash River |
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What pushed the British to make a bold bid for control of the West? What did the British government urge Native Americans to do in 1794? |
The possibility of French involvement in the region Destroy American settlement west of the Appalachians |
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What did the Native Americans demand? What was Washington's response? |
Demanded that all settlers north of the Ohio River leave the territory
Washington sent another army headed by Anthony Wayne |
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Who was the second army Washington sent headed by? What happened at the Battle of Fallen Timbers of 1794? |
Anthony Wayne Anthony Wayne defeated over 1000 Native Americans under Shawnee chief Blue Jacket |
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What did the American victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers do? What did Native Americans agreed to do in the 1795 Treaty of Grenville? |
Crushed Native Americans' hopes of keeping their land
Agree to surrender most of land in present day Ohio |
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When did the French Revolution start? Why did Americans support the French at first? |
1789
Grateful for help during Revolution and French Revolution embodied similar ideals of the American Revolution |
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When does the U.S. opinion on the French Revolution divide? How does the French Revolution turn bloody? |
In 1793 when the war turns bloody
Executed King and Queen and thousands of French citizens |
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How did the French Revolution offend many Americans? Why did others hail the new republic? |
It's violence, as well as its attack on religion and disregard of individual liberties offended many Americans
Saw as copy of the U.S. |
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When did Britain and France go to war? Who sided with France and who sided with Britain |
1793
South along with Jefferson supported and sympathized with the French
Manufacturers and merchants along with Hamilton and Adams favored Britian |
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What did Washington hope the U.S. Would do during the French Revolution |
Hoped that it would maintain its neutrality |
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What is neutrality ? |
Not taking any sides in the conflict between France and Britain |
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How did the French try to include the United States in their conflict With Britain? |
Sent Edmond Genet in April 1793 (was to recruit American volunteers to attack British ships) |
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What action did Washington take to discourage American involvement? |
On April 22, 1793 he issued a Proclamation of Neutrality |
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What did the proclamation of Neutrality do? |
Prohibited Americans from fighting in the French war Barred French and British warships from American ports |
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What did the British began sound since they were outraged by French attacks at sea? |
Began capturing American ships that traded with the French Stopped and impressed American ships |
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What is impressment? |
Forcing people into service, as in the navy |
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Who did Washington send to negotiate |
John jay, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
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Why were the British willing to listen to jays proposals? |
War with US was not in best interests because:
Would only make it harder to carry on the war with France
U.S. Was Britain's best market |
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What did the British agree to do in Jays treaty? |
Withdraw from American soil
Pay damages for ships seized
To allow American ships to trade with British colones in the Caribbean
Settlement of debts from before 1776 |
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Who was war |
Protested that the treaty did not deal with impressment
Did not mention British interference in American trade |
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Who was sent to try to settle the differences between Spain and America |
Thomas Pinckney |
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What did Pinckney's treaty do and when was it made? |
1795
Gave Americas free navigation of Mississippi River Gave Americans right to trade in New Orleans |
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What did Washington announce in Sept 1796? What did Washington attack in his Farewell address and why? |
Wouldn't seek a third term (set precedent for only 2 terms)
The evils of political parties and entanglement in foreign affairs Because he considered then a grave danger to the new nation |
